TECHNOLOGY

Google is making it easier to keep your personal info personal.

Here’s How to Use Google's New Privacy Tool to Scrub Your Personal Info From Search Results

The search engine's new Results About You tool makes it easier to keep your email and physical address from being seen online.

Canceling Netflix doesn't have to be hard.

Streaming Fatigue? Here's How to Quickly and Easily Cancel Your Netflix Subscription

The service wants to hang on to its 220 million subscribers, which is why canceling on a mobile device can be a little tricky. Here's how to do it.

Charging your phone shouldn't land you in the burn ward.

Why Do Phone and Computer Chargers Get So Hot? And Is It Dangerous?

If you can iron your shirt with your cell phone brick, you've got a problem.

Because not all receipts need to be saved forever.

This Handy iPhone Shortcut Lets You Delete All Your Old Screenshots in One Go

Need to declutter your screenshots folder? This iPhone shortcut will do it for you.

This Clever App Tells You What to Build With Your LEGO Pile

Just snap a picture of your random LEGO assortment and Brickit will provide inspiration.

These Amazon devices are wildly popular—and on this page, you can save even more on them.

This Hidden Page on Amazon Has All Kinds of Tech Deals on Kindles, Fire TV Streaming Devices, and More

This Amazon page is tucked away, but you can find major tech deals on refurbished Kindles, Fire TV cubes, and more.

Hold Your Phone Up to the Night Sky and This App Will Identify Stars, Planets, and More

Sky Guide will answer all your burning stargazing questions, from “What am I looking at?” to “What should I be looking at?”

See How the News Covered Video Games in 1980

As is the case with any new technology aimed at kids, parents were concerned.

There Are Only 25 Blimps Left on Earth—Here’s Why

There are 25 blimps left in existence as of 2022, and only half of them are in use.

You can consume classic works of literature in 20-minute increments with this app.

Want To Devour Some Classic Literature? The Serial Reader App Breaks Long Novels Up Into Easy-to-Read Chunks

Serial Reader offers more than 800 books in the form of daily "issues" that you can read in just 20 minutes.

Fax or Fiction: When Urban Legends Spread By Fax Machine

“Faxlore" marked the transition from oral urban legends to spam emails and copypasta.

Common Misconceptions About Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and More

Hearing NFTs explained as “non-fungible tokens” only makes sense if you already know what ‘fungible’ means.

'This, of Course, Is Bad': A Chess Robot Accidentally Broke a 7-Year-Old's Finger

The robot mistook the boy's finger for a chess piece.

Ludwig van Beethoven, originator of the "curse."

Lifting the "Curse of the Ninth:" How AI is Helping to Finish Unfinished Symphonies

Computer scientists are developing algorithms for AI to complete the unfinished works of Beethoven and other classical music masters.

Google Street View's Time Travel Function Lets You Browse a Location's History Going Back Decades

Google Street View's archives are the closest thing we have to a time machine.

A tokay gecko demonstrates its climbing skill.

10 Modern Inventions Modeled After Nature

Sometimes the best tech is right in front of us, thanks to millions of years of evolution.

Amazon’s Alexa May Soon Be Able to Sound Like Your Dead Loved One

You best start believin’ in uncanny valleys, Miss Alexa. You’re in one!

11 Fascinating Facts About H.G. Wells

As well as having a hand in shaping sci-fi as we know it, H.G. Wells also influenced the spheres of science, politics, and more.

The Reason You Sometimes See Chunks of Trees on Power Lines

Unlike the brightly colored balls on power lines, those random "tree chunks" don't serve a practical purpose.

Can’t Remember the Name of That Movie With That Actor That Takes Place In That City? There’s a Website for That

Whatismymovie.com works with however much or little information you have about the movie on the tip of your tongue.

This iPhone Keyboard Hack Makes One-Handed Texting Much Easier

Your iPhone keyboard settings can give you more than emojis and multiple alphabets.

The original iPod touch first introduced in 2007.

The iPod Touch is Officially Dead. Long Live the iPod Touch

Apple products come and go—but your memories of the iPod touch will last a lifetime.

The Simple Way to Deactivate Your Twitter Account for Good

The hardest part of not having Twitter in your life is actually deleting your Twitter account. Luckily, the process is easy.

Now you can pretend you work in an Apple Store.

Apple Is Finally Letting People Fix Their Own iPhones

Apple is finally letting people fix their own iPhones—without a trip to the Genius Bar.

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